MPs were left wondering who owns SA’s dams when the water department revealed that it owns only 320 of the country’s more than 5000 registered dams.
The DA’s bid to impeach President Jacob Zuma over the government’s handling of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s visit to the country has failed.
Opposition MPs have accused the executive of giving mediocre answers and not being able to answer yes-no questions or provide timelines and figures.
The ANC has slammed the Democratic Alliance’s criticism of this week’s parliamentary programme as "dishonesty and cheap propaganda".
Parties agree the EFF has turned apolitical messages of condolence and praise from Parliament into political tools and need a rule to govern motions.
The Democratic Alliance has threatened to take Parliament to court after their bid for a debate on a motion of impeachment against Zuma failed.
While a new cast of characters have the painful task of figuring out how to further secure Zuma’s rural home, the heat is off the president – for now.
Jacob Zuma "again" craftily dodged accountability and oversight debate in the National Assembly, say leaders of the DA.
The pernicious claim is that because Parliament is elected any move to question its actions represents an undemocratic subversion of the popular will.
Parties have had enough of the disruptions in Parliament and want a quick solution to deal with disturbances, but the EFF says it is being targeted.
If Zuma was the little piggy in the nursery rhyme, he would laugh all the way to Nkandla. But what does it all mean, asks Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
More than 200 members of Parliament decided that the president urgently needed a salary raise. It will be backdated to April.
Parliament’s rules sub-committee says rules should apply to prevent MPs from holding up placards, after the EFF staged a silent protest last week.
Despite the outcry over Jacob Zuma’s extensive upgrades to his Nkandla homestead, the police minister has found all upgrades were necessary.
The Western Cape High Court has dismissed the case from a media group against Speaker Baleka Mbete regarding Parliament’s broadcasting policy.
The court, as in the other two cases lost by the speaker, showed a far greater commitment to free speech than had the speaker.
Our National Assembly is less democracy in action than it is democratic inaction.
The president downplayed demands that he address Nkandla and release the Marikana report during his response to the presidency budget vote debate.
President Jacob Zuma has been accused by opposition MPs of "cheapening" the lives of those who died at Marikana by refusing to release the report.
Snarky remarks, shouting matches and not so thinly veiled insults dominated President Jacob Zuma’s question and answer session in Parliament.
Sticking points, such as the decriminalisation of sex between children aged 12 to 16, have seen the amendment Bill go a month over deadline.
It’s disconcerting when our Constitution’s founding mothers misconstrue the rationale behind constitutional guarantees of MPs’ freedom of speech.
The Western Cape High Court has ruled that the Powers and Privileges Act is only applicable to non-members of Parliament.
Opposition MPs have taken the basic education minister to task in Parliament after she praised the state of South Africa’s "well-resourced" schools.
Twenty-one years after the country’s first democratic elections, some praise the strides made by the ANC and others condemn SA’s gross inequality.
The ANC defied any reasoning from Public Protector Thuli Madonsela that her office needed more funding, but the opposition united in her defence.
The portfolio committee on home affairs has asked difficult questions concerning the messy problem of xenophobia.
The NPA and other state institutions are working together to speed up the prosecution of perpetrators who commit xenophobic attacks.
MPs say transfer pricing, though legal, presents challenges when determining if firms have evaded taxation and they want the practice criminalised.
Media houses want the Western Cape High Court to declare it was unlawful to use a signal jamming device during the Sona in February.
The dramatic events in Parliament over the past two days have put Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega’s position under severe pressure.
Our president doesn’t deserve even an ugly or poorly made statue, but he does deserve to fall, like the statue of Cecil John Rhodes did.